• Objectives

1. Changes at health facility in readiness for perinatal care service delivery
2. Changes in the Knowledge Practice Coverage (KPC) indicators related to pregnancy and essential newborn care practice and service delivery indicators at community level
3. Processes and practices related to perinatal death audit practices undertaken by the ASHAs in these districts
4. Evidence generation and recommendations for the improvement of essential newborn care services and delivery care services to scale up this intervention.

• Timeline

 April – May 2016

• Location

• Methods

A mixed methodology (Quantitative and Qualitative) shall be adopted for data collection:

1. Facility assessment: Quantitative methodology
2. Knowledge and Skill assessment: Quantitative methodology
3. Skill lab assessment: Mixed (Quantitative + Qualitative) methodology
4. Perception and opinion: Qualitative methodology(In-depth interviews)
5. Community and household survey (Quantitative + Qualitative) methodology.

The mix methodology approach shall allow complementing the information and synthesis for comprehensive understanding of the situation and the issues related to implementation and impact

• Expected Outcomes

1. Status of readiness of the health facilities for essential newborn care and perinatal care service delivery.
2. Status of skill and knowledge among health providers (doctors, nurses, and ANMs/LHVs) engaged in birthing and newborn care.
3. Institutionalization and integration of the intervention into the practice
4. Perceptions and challenges related to service delivery, training, skill retention and modalities of addressing them as perceived by the stakeholders
5. Status of the pregnancy and essential newborn care knowledge practice coverage (KPC) indicators at community level.